Rugby Town slumped to a home defeat against Sutton Coldfield Town after a disastrous first half at Butlin Road.
For the second time in four days, Town returned to the dressing room at the break with a three-goal deficit after another poor defensive display.
Rugby's starting line-up showed four changes from the 4-1 home loss to Belper, with Greg Tempest returning to the team after a long injury lay-off, and Archie Murray, Will Harris and Drew Lowe were also on-pitch from the off.
Ex-Valleyites Remie Birch and Ayo Lekuti started for the visitors, with another one-time Butlin Road favourite Danico Johnson named on the bench.
James McGrady's deflected strike for the Royals was comfortably gathered by Town keeper Charlie Woods in the opening few minutes, with Woods then doing well to spread himself to deny Reece Gibson's effort to a Jack Lynch cross.
However, Sutton took an eighth-minute lead after the hosts failed to deal with Ryan Edmunds's corner across the face of the goal and the ball bounced up nicely for Joseph Hull to head home from close range.
Kobi Bivens was then thwarted as he looked to put in a cross after he done well to dispossess Birch, before Caine Elliott almost levelled things up with a shot from a central position inside the box after Lowe's in-swinging cross was not properly cleared - but the Valley midfielder's shot was helped away by the boot of Royals' keeper James Wren.
The bulk of the action was at the other end though, with Murray recovering well from losing an initial tackle to deny Lekuti, Edmunds sending in another threatening flat corner and Woods also pushing away a well-struck effort from Lekuti.
Sutton doubled their lead on 27 minutes when a calamitous error from Woods saw him somehow fall over the ball after Josh Thomas had laid it back to him, which allowed Gibson the simplest of finishes into an empty net.
Things then got worse for the home side, with Tempest's comeback being cut short when he limped off just past the half-hour mark, and the visitors continued to trouble Rugby, with Jayden Campell darting into the box before having a shot blocked by Rivel Mardenborough.
Town did fall three behind before the break though, after Murray missed a long forward pass to allow McGrady to ghost in down the left and centre the ball for Gibson to execute a neat high finish from a few yards out.
McGrady scuffed another chance for the Royals shortly after, although Rugby did fashion a decent opportunity of their own before the half-time whistle when Mardenborough released Sam Tye down the left-hand channel, but the Town skipper's first effort was blocked before his curled follow-up attempt was tipped round the post by Wren.
Sutton thought they had made it four not long after the restart when Gibson helped another one home, but the goal was chalked off for a push on Woods.
Rugby did start to offer a little more attacking threat as the second-half progressed, with sub Trey Charles seeing his dangerous cross to the near-post cleared away, although Thomas was soon doing the same to Campbell's near-identical delivery at the other end.
Teddy Rowe's free-kick strike from a wide position was headed clear, and Charles had an effort blocked, before Woods pulled off a decent stop to keep out another Gibson hat-trick attempt.
Sutton's Luke McGinnell fired a low shot wide late-on, with the game's final chance falling to Mardenborough after he had cut in from the left, but he struck the ball straight at Wren.
